Round Table »Politics and Poetics of Sand«

The Round Table »Politics and Poetics of Sand« was part of the format series accompanying the exhibition »Design Lab #13: Material Legacies« at Kunstgewerbemuseum. The Round Tables represented each of the exhibiting projects and the involved researchers and artists in a moderated dialogue with guests from different disciplines. The format brought a variety of perspectives to the exhibited works, its material legacies and entangled discourses and invited the public to engage.

On February 9th design anthropologist and Cluster Member Michaela Büsse discussed her work with geographer Katherine Dawson (University College London), communication expert Hannah Tollefson (McGill University Montreal) and environmental anthropologist Jerry Zee (Princeton University). Moderation: Jeff Diamanti (University of Amsterdam).

Assembling the Coast is a sensorial-ethnographic investigation of a coastal replenishment project on the Baltic Sea. Erosion and rising sea level lead to coastal retreat and frequent replenishments are used to counteract this process. Together with cinematographer Konstantin Mitrokhov and sound designer Andreas Kühne, Michaela Büsse developed a film work that captures the transformation of the coast into a landscape that is both natural and constructed. During the round table participants will discuss the role of artistic practice in researching material transformation and environmental change.